We are looking for native English teachers working ASAP in Shanghai, China. The ideal candidates should have Bachelor degree at least, TEFL or 2 years teaching experience and be willing to relocate in China.

Let me introduce a little bit about school first!

First Leap is a teaching institution with a content language integrated learning (CLIL) curriculum. The students learn through creatively designed lessons in subjects such as; art, music, world culture, global leadership, science, reading, virtual PE and logical thinking. First Leap has an already developed curriculum, pre-prepared and tested lessons that are taught with interactive whiteboards. The company originated in Beijing and now have grown over 41 cities in China with more than 500 native English teachers and more than 1000 local teachers.

Public Holiday: Chinese public holidays off, 25th December and 1st January off.

Annual Holiday: 1st year teacher has 3 paid annual leave.

Sick Leave: 5 paid days’ sick leave.

What is your job?

You will be teaching students from 3 to 12 years old.

The class size is very small, around 10 - 14 students per class.

Depending on the student age, class length is 40 to 60 minutes.

You will be working for 32 hours per week (includes 16 teaching hours and 16 office hours).

There is one teaching assistant in your class.

Initial training: This is separate to your months’ salary, you get a ‘Training payment’ for the 10 days before you start your ‘official’ paid days of working which begin once you finish training. You will receive 10 – 14 hotel paid days initial training in Beijing (training is paid based on performance).